Fat Face - Recycled bag, what a fab idea to make use of unsalable stock!

Recycle, Recycle, Recycle

For the last few mouths I have been collecting unwanted denim from friends and family to use in my collection, I am so pleased with what I have managed to get my hand hands on.

Fat Face Summer 2010- Love it!!

Check out the new Fat Face wrist band " Rent The House Sell The Car Keep Your Jeans" now you can even wear Fat Face in the shower!

Fat Face is perhaps one of my favorite brands, recently Fat Face have opened a store just up the road from me in Wimbourne my wardrobe is increasingly getting FAT FACED out!

ASOS AFRICA

It seems as though everyone has gone African mad, Asos has launched its 'asos AFRICA' collection, this is made from sustainable sources and has key ethical values. It is beautiful.
"On our continuing quest to find new inspiration, we recently spent time in Africa working with artisans and smaller producer groups. The vibrancy of the continent inspired us to create the ASOS Africa collection with the aim of supporting trade in Africa. The ASOS Africa collection will be housed within the Green Room, a new marketplace on ASOS.com which brings together and highlights brands that promote people and the planet."

Design Devlopment

So I have talk a lot about Kaledo in the last few posts, this is what i have been up to. I have created Color pallets from some of my most inspiring images using both color blocks on Kaledo and also my own fabrics that i have scanned in. After a lot of playing around with different fabrics and color I have chosen these fabrics for my collection. Kaledo has enabled me to develop my designs and to give me a clear view as to what may collection will look like when complete.

Company High-Street Edit

My new fav magazine, whilst flicking through the magazines I came across it. The layout is unlike any other magazine, it is more similar to a look book, each page has a different theme and background and it isn't printed on that horrible glossy paper that are hard to turn the page.

I was so excited about this find i took it out with me that night to show like minded friends..... I think they all now own a copy.

Kaledo why do you keep crashing on me?

Following my last blog about Kaledo I couldn't say a bad word about it, whilst i still enjoy using it now I have really got into it we have occurred a problem..... it keeps crashing and i am losing my work. Not knowing the ins and outs of computers at all I think the basic reason is that it is getting over loaded. This is the first time anyone has started scanning in fabrics to use on their designs so I guess I am the Guinea pig here.

With the help from IT and Uni it came down to phoning Lectra, whom have an amazing help line, they can take control of you computer their end and do all the checks etc that they have to do. This saves a huge amount of time for both parties. At first we thought we had cracked it, so simple but it is something we didn't think off, the resolution of the scanned fabrics was to high causing the program to crash. This was great as i could now change it and get on ......it crashed again. Roger at Lectra then thought it may be a problem with Microsoft , changes had to be made to the settings. Fingers crossed it is now all sorted.